Both sides in Sudan's civil war have embraced drone warfare, causing civilian deaths, with hospitals, marketplaces and schools among the targets.
CIVICUS Lens
As authoritarianism expands, more activists are being forced into exile, but repression is following them.
The latest United Nations High-Level Political Forum to review the Sustainable Development Goals offered further evidence of a divided multilateral system, with language that once passed without comment now contested.
President Hakainde Hichilema has won a second term in Zambia's 13 August election, but his party left little to chance.
A mass crossing from Morocco to Spain's exclave of Ceuta on 30 July triggered a political and social media storm that overshadowed the deaths of over a hundred people.
The UN General Assembly recently voted to reappoint Volker Türk as High Commissioner for Human Rights, making him the first person to serve two terms since the post was created in 1993.
When India's Chief Justice branded unemployed young people as 'cockroaches', Gen Z turned the insult into a rallying call.
The Trump administration's latest attack on the International Criminal Court seeks to use diplomatic and economic pressure to persuade states to quit.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has declared he'll hold no more elections, abandoning any pretence of democratic legitimacy.
Burkina Faso's military leader, Ibrahim Traoré, has told his compatriots to forget about democracy.
